The Caesarean opera-tion. See Cjksabeaw Sbction
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In English law. A port, wharf, or small haven to embark or land merchandise at Cowell; Blount
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A paroxysmal disease or disorder of the nervous system, more common in females than males, not originating in any anatomical lesion, due- to psychic rather than physical causes, and attended, in the acute er convulsive form, by extraordinary manifesta-tions of secondary effects of extreme nervous-ness
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Those who, hav-ing been thought dead, had, after a long absence in foreign countries, returned safely home; or those wbo, having been thought dead in battle, had afterwards unexpectedly escaped from thelr enemies and returned home. These, among the Romans, were not permitted to enter their own houses at the door, bnt were received at a passage opened in the roof. Enc. Lond
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A com-binatlon of assumed or proved facts and cir-cumstances, stated in such form as to constitute a coherent and specific situation or state of facts, upon whicli the oplnion of an expert is asked, by way of evldence on a trial. Howard v. People, 185 111. 552, 57 N. E. 441; People v. Durrant, 116 Cal. 216, 48 Pac. 85; Cowley v. People, 83 N. Y. 464. 38 Am. Rep. 464; Stearns v. Field, 90 N. Y. 641
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In French lnw. Hy-pothecatlon; a mortgage on real property; the right vested in a creditor by the assign-inent to hlm of real estate as security for the payment of hls debt, whether or not it be accompanied by possession. See Clv. Code La. art 3360
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A supposition, assumption, or theory; a theory set up by the pros-ecution, on a criminal trial, or by the de-fense, as on explanation of the facts in evi-dence, aud a ground for inferring guilt or ln-nocence, as the case may be, or as indicating a probable or posslble motive for tbe crlme
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A term borrowed from the civil law. In so far as It is nat-urailzed in English and American law, it means a contract of mortgage or pledge in
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A bond giv-en in the contract of bottomfy or respondentia
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The name of an action allowed under the civil law for the enforcement of the claims of a credit-or by the contract of hypotheca. Lovell v. Cragin, 136 U. S. 130, 10 Sup. CL 1024, 34 I* Ed. 372
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To pledge a thing without delivering the possession of it to the pledgee. “The master, when abroad, and in the absence of the owner, may hypothecate the ship, freight, and cargo, to raise money requisite for the completion of the voyage.” 3 Kent Comm. 171. See Spect v. Spect, 88 Cal. 437, 26 Pac. 203, 13 L. R. A. 137, 22 Am. St. Rep. 314; ogden v. Lathrop, 31 N. ¥. Super. Ct. 651
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In Scotland, the term “hypothec” is used to signify the landlord’s right which, independently of any stipula-tlon, he has over the crop and stocking of his tenant. ‘It gives a security to the landlord over the crop of each year for the lent of
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“Hypotheca” was a term of the Roman law, and denoted a pledge or mortgage. As distinguished from the term “pignus” in the same law, it denoted a mortgage, whether of lands or of goods, in whlch the subject in pledge remained in the pos-sesslon of the mortgagor or debtor; whereas In the pignus the mortgagee or creditor was in tbe possession. Such an hypotheca might be either express or implied; express, where the parties upon the occasion of a loan en-tered into express agreement to that effect; or implied, as, e. g., in the case of the stock and utensils of a farmer, which were subject to the landlord’s right as a creditor for rent; wheuce the Scotch law of hypothec
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In medical jurisprudence. (1) The morbid deposition of a sediment of any kind in the body. (2) A congestion or flushing of the blood vessels, as in varicose veins. Post-mortem hypostasis, a peculiar lividity of the cadaver
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In medical jurisprudence. A psychic or mental state rendering the pa-tient susceptible to suggestion at the will of another
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In tbe civil law. The name of the bequest or legacy given by the husband to hls wife, at his death, above her dowry
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An instrument for measuring the density of fluids. Being ira-mersed in fluids, as in water, brines beer, brandy, etc., it determines the proportion of thelr density, or their specific gravity, and thence their quality. See Rev. St U. S. S 2918 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1927
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Lat in the civU law. winter. Dig. 43, 20, 4, 34. written, in some of the old books, “perns.” Fleta, lib. 2, c. 73, SS 16, 18
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A mongrel; an animal foriu-ed of the nnlon of different species, or dif-ferent genera; also (metaphorically) a human being born of the union of persons of different races
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